Miscellaneous NHL Discussion: The "like literally" mid-February 2021 edition

[ajgoal]

Sabres finally get a goal and it’s offside

Trotz is a jerk.

 

[GKJ]

How Kevin Rooney an extra attacker?

 

[sabremike]

 

[Striiker]

1 point in 13 games for Lafreniere (in 3v3 OT). Yeesh. I'm sure we'd be taking that well.

One game in people were saying Farabee looked like a completely different player.
The next handful of games resulted in people saying he was a disappointment and was completely invisible.
Then the most recent stretch of games have been constant praise and now there's threads where people think he's going to be a star.

The difference?
4 points in 1 game
0 points in 5 games
8 points in 7 games

A large chunk of this board can't evaluate past looking at end results in tiny sample sizes. So yes, a 1st overall pick with 1 point in 13 games would go over very well.

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Watching Vegas-colorado just has me so jealous

 

[OzFlyers]

Sabres finally get a goal and it’s offside

Didn't they win the off-season?

 

[BritainStix]

Watching Vegas-colorado just has me so jealous

It's like watching a different game isn't it.

Fast, skilled, hitting.

 

[Elvis P]

"
#1: Bobby Clarke

• Best Checker: 1973, 1974, 1976.
• Best Forechecker: 1981.
• Best on Faceoffs: 1973, 1976, 1979, 1981.
• Best Penalty Killer: 1974, 1976.
• Hardest Worker: 1971, 1974, 1976, 1979.
• First Player to Build a Team Around: 1976.
• Hart Trophy: 1973, 1975, 1976.
• Ted Lindsay (then, Lester B. Pearson) Award: 1973." https://thehockeywriters.com/elite-eight-the-best-defensive-forwards-in-hockey-history/

 

[Tripod]

Eichel, Hall, Skinner

27 million this year

So far 3 combined goals.

 

[TCTC]

Eichel, Hall, Skinner

27 million this year

So far 3 combined goals.

Looks like Skinner has been terrible so far. 1 point in 12 games.

He wasn't great last year either. Really looks like his 40 goal contract year was a fluke.

 

[Don Nachbaur 26]

Looks like Skinner has been terrible so far. 1 point in 12 games.

He wasn't great last year either. Really looks like his 40 goal contract year was a fluke.

Amazes me how so many GMs overpay in a players best season, which happens to be their walk year. If a dummy like me can see it, makes you wonder why they can't.

 

[TCTC]

Amazes me how so many GMs overpay in a players best season, which happens to be their walk year. If a dummy like me can see it, makes you wonder why they can't.

Yeah, it's always very risky but also tempting to sign a player who has a great season in his last year of a contract.
Duchene seems to be a similar case and I was definitely guilty of wanting to throw money at him in 2019.

 

[FLYguy3911]

 

[landsbergfan]

Tony Time

 

[deadhead]

"
#1: Bobby Clarke

• Best Checker: 1973, 1974, 1976.
• Best Forechecker: 1981.
• Best on Faceoffs: 1973, 1976, 1979, 1981.
• Best Penalty Killer: 1974, 1976.
• Hardest Worker: 1971, 1974, 1976, 1979.
• First Player to Build a Team Around: 1976.
• Hart Trophy: 1973, 1975, 1976.
• Ted Lindsay (then, Lester B. Pearson) Award: 1973." https://thehockeywriters.com/elite-eight-the-best-defensive-forwards-in-hockey-history/

Love this quote:
“[He’s] the dirtiest player in hockey” / “If I had Clarke on the Canadiens, we would have won six or seven Cups in a row…” – Scotty Bowman

For those of you too young to have seen Clarke in action, he was a great clutch player as well, up there with MJ in any sport, the game was never over as long as the Flyers were in striking distance and Clarke was on the ice. Like MJ he hated losing more than he loved winning.

Crazy thing was he was also is a type 1 diabetic, shooting up between periods.

 

[Magua]

I understand why he did it to some degree, given coaching familiarity and the chance to ride shotgun next to Eichel and pump up his stats, but there’s a bit of — “What did you expect?” — when it comes to signing a contract with an always disappointing Buffalo. Or Hall has an unconscious fetish for bottom feeders that is tearing him apart from within.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Steve Simmons riling up the Neanderthal contingent of the Leafs’ fanbase today.

 

[Rebels57]

Steve Simmons riling up the Neanderthal contingent of the Leafs’ fanbase today.

Someone should drop a piano on that twat

 

[Tripod]

Steve Simmons riling up the Neanderthal contingent of the Leafs’ fanbase today.

Yeah Tim & Sid spent 30 minutes discussing it...lol.

 

[Striiker]

Steve Simmons riling up the Neanderthal contingent of the Leafs’ fanbase today.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Huberdeau just did a number on the Canes this game.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

NBC really has to stop putting the Red Wings on national tv.

 

[flyersnorth]

Steve Simmons riling up the Neanderthal contingent of the Leafs’ fanbase today.

Steve Simmons is like a steaming pile of shit. Doesn't matter how many times you see it, smell it or walk in it - it's still just a steaming pile of shit.

 

[Rebels57]

Huberdeau just did a number on the Canes this game.

He's gotta be one of the most underrated forwards in the NHL